Since 2007, Open Words has been dedicated to publishing peer-reviewed articles focusing on political, professional, and pedagogical issues related to teaching composition, rhetoric, reading, creative writing, ESL, and literature to open-admissions and “nonmainstream” student populations. 

Call for Submissions: We are currently accepting abstracts for the spring 2026 issue. For more information, please view the call for abstracts on the submissions page.

CURRENT ISSUE

Volume 15, Number 1, Fall 2023

Special Issue on Multilingual Student Writers in Higher Education

Guest Editor: Jagadish Paudel

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Introduction from the Editors, by Sue Hum, Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa, and Kristina Gutierrez

Guest Editor’s Introduction: Access Necessarily Precedes Success: Multilingual Student Writers in Higher Education, by Jagadish Paudel
DOI: 10.37514/OPW-J.2023.15.1.01

Re-Addressing the "Problem of PCW": Rethinking a Bridge-Writing Course in the Interest of Supporting Multilingual Students, by Joyce Meier, Xiqiao Wang, and Cheryl Caesar
DOI: 10.37514/OPW-J.2023.15.1.02

“How Can I Sound Politician?”: A Case Study of Multilingual Writer Transferring Prior Knowledge in Multimodal Composing, by Xiao Tan
DOI: 10.37514/OPW-J.2023.15.1.03

Encouraging Language Negotiation in Institutional Spaces: A Qualitative Case Study in Pedagogies to Promote Translanguaging in Writing Courses, by Maria Isela Maier
DOI: 10.37514/OPW-J.2023.15.1.04

Storytelling in First Year Writing, by Anthony DeGenaro and Lena Hakim
DOI: 10.37514/OPW-J.2023.15.1.05

Piloting a Language Autoethnography in a First-Year Writing Program: A Study of Five Multilingual Student Writers, by Michael J. Faris, Michelle E. Flahive, Elizabeth Hughes Karnes, and Callie F. Kostelich
DOI: 10.37514/OPW-J.2023.15.1.06

Multilingual Epicenters: First-Year Writing and the Writing Center as Critical Sites of Multilingual Sustainability for Language-Minoritized Students in Higher Education, by Marco F. Navarro, Sara P. Alvarez, and Eunjeong Lee
DOI: 10.37514/OPW-J.2023.15.1.07

Multilingual Student Writers in Higher Education: Increasing Support for Multilingual Student Writers in a Writing Center Context, by Allie Johnston
DOI: 10.37514/OPW-J.2023.15.1.08

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Open Words: Access and English Studies is an open-access, peer-review scholarly journal, published on the WAC Clearinghouse and supported by Colorado State University. Articles are published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs). ISSN: 2690-3911 (Print) 2690-392X (Online).